Photo: Robbie Sproule from Montreal, Canada · CC BY 2.0Owners in Montréal-Ouest value their homes at 2.9 times the median of Quebec’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $870,000 in 2021, where the median of Quebec’s towns was $300,000. A census value is an owner’s guess at a selling price in May 2021, and prices have moved since. For Montréal-Ouest there is no published sale price, as for every town in Quebec. On the 2026 property roll, single-family homes have a median of $1,054,500, valued as of July 1, 2024.
What Montréal-Ouest’s homes are worth, two ways
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $920K
- Owners
- 1,430
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- Quebec’s towns
- $353K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
Built in 1930: the median house in Montréal-Ouest, where Quebec’s towns sit at 1981
By kind of building, Montréal-Ouest’s dwellings on the roll split 61% in single-family houses, 31% in plexes, 6% in buildings of six units or more and 2% in condos.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH): a kind’s median needs 10 units or more; plexes are valued per building; each municipality’s roll has its own market date. The ticks are the median of Québec’s municipalities with their own roll.
Before 1961: 74% of the homes in Montréal-Ouest, where Quebec’s towns have 21%
1,945 occupied homes stood in Montréal-Ouest in 2021, and single-detached houses made up 41% of them.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Montréal-Ouest | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 4% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 10% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 5% | 3% | 7% |
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada): occupied private dwellings; core housing need as Statistics Canada defines it. Ticks and columns are medians of the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more.
Permits in Montréal-Ouest ran at 3.2 homes a year per 1,000, where Quebec’s towns ran at 15.1
Some 5 homes a year: 31 in all were permitted in Montréal-Ouest from 2018 to 2023. Only under 1% went into single-unit buildings, beside 39% for Quebec’s towns.
A peak in 2023: 26 new homes
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Up 19%: 31,370 new homes in the year to August 2026
Statistics Canada, tables 46-10-0087 (building permits by census subdivision, 2018–2023: dwelling units created, new construction and conversions) and 34-10-0292 (monthly, metro areas). Per 1,000: units a year over 2019–2023 against occupied homes in 2021. · Monthly permits: one figure for all of the Montréal metro area
Montréal-Ouest against Quebec’s towns: 190% over the $300,000 median
The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cheaper next to Montréal-Ouest: Loyola, Côte-Saint-Luc and Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre
The places around Montréal-Ouest at the 2021 census: median and average value, and how many own.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montréal-Ouest | $870K | $920K | 74% | |
| Loyola | $700K | $672K | 39% | 1.4 |
| Côte-Saint-Luc | $685K | $733K | 46% | 2.2 |
| Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre | $424K | $436K | 34% | 2.3 |
| Upper Lachine | $548K | $593K | 20% | 2.7 |
| Cecil-P.-Newman | $600K | $581K | 32% | 2.7 |
| Hampstead | $1.51M | $1.77M | 68% | 3 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Montréal-Ouest
Is Montréal-Ouest expensive for Quebec?
More than most: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Montréal-Ouest sits above it.
How many households in Montréal-Ouest are in core housing need?
In Montréal-Ouest, 5% of households are in core housing need, close to the 3% of Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, building permits (tables 46-10-0087 and 34-10-0292) · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation, rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).